Red Tory: How Left and Right have Broken Britain and How we can Fix It

Department of Government public lecture

Conventional politics is at a crossroads. Amid recession, depression, poverty, increasing violence and rising inequality, our current politics is exhausted and inadequate. In Red Tory|, Phillip Blond argues that only a radical new political settlement can tackle the problems we face.

Red Toryism combines economic egalitarianism with social conservatism, calling for an end to the monopolisation of society and the private sphere by the state and the market. Decrying the legacy of both the Labour and Conservative parties, Blond proposes a genuinely progressive Conservatism that will restore social equality and revive British culture. He calls for the strengthening of local communities and economies, ending dispossession, redistribution of the tax burden and restoration the nuclear family.

Phillip Blond is director of ResPublica a new public policy thinktank. The New Statesman have called his thinking 'the only genuinely innovative political idea of the past few years.' He writes frequently for the mainstream press on economics, politics and social policy. The Times have called Red Tory one of the highlights of the year to come.

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